Thanks to the several people who responded, to whom I have replied off list.

By way of clarification, I am especially interested in the conventions governing the extension of the counting system to extremely large positive integers.

The problem I have set myself is to define formally a counting sequence for a variety of natural languages. On the one hand, I am interested in numeral systems as a subgrammar of a natural language illustrating many of the problems of the larger grammar of which it is a part; and on the other hand, once I work out the details for a language, I then formulate an exercise,on the basis of the grammar I have worked out, for my students in my course, Introduction to Semantics.

Cordially yours,

Brendan Gillon

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Brendan S. Gillon                       email: brendan.gillon@mcgill.ca
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